13 Top science fiction books like The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1) by Seth Dickinson

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The Traitor Baru Cormorantis an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1) by Seth Dickinson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The Traitor Baru Cormorantis an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

3. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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4. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

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5. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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6. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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7. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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8. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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9. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. This Is How You Lose the Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar

3.88

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before … read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Atlantis sinks. Serves it right."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"And everyone is alive, somewhere in time."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"All the stars are eyes here, always seeking."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"I would rather break the world than lose you."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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11. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

By: Arkady Martine

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more

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  • lesbian
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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I thought you hated them,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

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12. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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13. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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  • queer
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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14. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Bones are mediocre."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I remember being eighteen."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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15. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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17. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

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  • lesbian
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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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18. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

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  • lesbian
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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

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19. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword… read more

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  • lesbian
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  • adult
  • fantasy
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"Evidence,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Too many words,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Harrow said, “But you're God."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Death first to vultures and scavangers."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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20. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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21. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2)

By: C.L. Clark

4.30

Format: 512 pages, None

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess … read more

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  • fiction
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